Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c9d2e102c52b43e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-08 01:42:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 715a413340e8c128908c339329ec5c23 SHA-1: 86dae8fb25086274d7cd0eeb213455449280b0cc SHA-256: 6c9d2e102c52b43e793b79941088bc04e026f73e4f8c346a5b001da34f062fcd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=raid+shadow+legends+tag+team+arena+guide PDF link annotation
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd6cc23d75---79587794485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b27d5c7c117af103b97cf6a43ef2acff/78179859005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58fae5e374---81602663879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o87b8vl5s26rsudnqsfmc0rijg/45358993649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702dbfcdd86---kapobexate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733a08dbada---80366587228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b527a8646c67732271c0a6f0dd2477e/76839389419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e17f399502---62549528621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa96c4c4431---zinenunesezajero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2061e11b98adb1fc1fa7a9fd7395502/wadaniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec6a7c7948---sijege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caf07858a1---5561895348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2fce84fc544da306e306c08737fc3b/xiwemomobivufakukanejikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d5668d992---62960368409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/xobirubodobifuvekaredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3808d3b076df8cc272c49f2a70945f9/bivegirone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/52137335291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/92605646341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e18a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18A 5336 bytes
SHA-256: a11f52d1828fcc9c7551fb1f04601650bf27d71711415fb48878d27a79fed924
font_01_sfnt_off0000f39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39D 10788 bytes
SHA-256: f84884a3acb1365a05aa8c2a2fcac6c142859826279d98a5e729cab1b616424d
font_02_sfnt_off000118e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E0 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 8a6fe2d22476d7d52c2a2b499370b40629d1cec4bbb8fd01fa40e8e9fdb20871